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Former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson is seeking a new trial after his second-degree murder conviction last month.

He was charged with murder for shooting Sonya Massey, an unarmed woman, in her kitchen after she called police to report a prowler.

His attorneys say the judge should have barred video that showed Grayson’s course and disparaging description of Massey in the minutes following the shooting.

The prosecutor’s office told Illinois Times such motions are standard practice, but the office doesn’t believe it has merit and will file a written response.

This summary was written by the editors at Capitol News Illinois. Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the Illinois Times and was republished with permission.

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